Has any dish truly “blown your mind”? I’m still waiting to experience this.
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Has any dish truly “blown your mind”? I’m still waiting to experience this.
Has any dish truly “blown your mind”? I’m still waiting to experience this.
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When I was a kid I thought cotton candy was pretty neat the first time I had it.
The first time I ate authentic Tai and Vietnamese food was close to that.
What Taiwanese did you eat you dumb shit
There was this one limited edition of pear-flavored chocolate that I was literally addicted to for the few months it was produced. I miss it a lot. Other brands can't compare.
You still remember the brand or label? Pear flavoured chocolate sounds great
Pic related. Lindt also makes pear chocolate, pretty good but nowhere near as good and expensive.
Yes once I had a perfect meal at a seafood restaurant. I liked fish and stuff before then, but the food I had cemented my belief that every single one of God's creatures under the sea is the most delicious food to exist on this Earth. This is a notion I hold to this day, and I truly pity they who cannot enjoy seafood like I do.
I once found this wooden hut in southern France where they only served fish. It didn't have an address or anything and it moved location all the time, yet everyone in the region knew how to get there. Jack Nicholson and Sigourney Weaver stopped by whenever they were in Cannes for the Film Festival. Good times.
Best meals I ever had were in a prostitute house in Italy. The pimp was a tiny Italian bloke with a moustache who was married to a fat Cuban giant twice his size. Her 2 daughters were absolute classical statues and served the drinks, they were the hookers. During the day he'd roam in the mountains with his gun and whatever he found in his path would end up on the plate. I never knew it was a brothel until years after he had shot his wife and made a run for the hills.
I hate desserts but when my boss served me his simple tarte Tatin from the barbecue (lots of herbes de Provence on the fire, Jacques Lebel apples) I got weak in the knees. Absolutely astonishing.
Most food/venues that are designed to blow your mind fail to do so. They're predictable and boring.
>Most food/venues that are designed to blow your mind fail to do so. They're predictable and boring.
I agree. and when you're sitting at the dining table and feel compelled to remark upon the food, you're doing yourself a disservice. The best cuisine is cuisine where you get what you expected, and are reminded of it later.
Good food doesn't need you to remark upon it, especially at the restaurant - unless somebody asks that question i.e. this thread.
That being said, there is one food I can't get right now, which is grilled whole squid from San Francisco. That is fire.
Where in San Francisco, I don't have the time to venture out there anymore. A name would really truly help me
nta but probably fisherman's wharf
I had some really good, authentic shepherd's pie a few months ago. That was the last truly geat meal that comes to mind. Some kind of thick, beefy brown beery gravy was what really did it.
why in God's name is the meat on a wire?
so it gets cold before you eat it
It represents the virility of the ocean as it spreads its seed across the hearty bounty of the land.
Went to a chinese+japanese restaurant and ordered "the kings meal" or some such, it was a beef dish.
I remember biting into it and it was literally like that ratatouille scene where he travels back in time to his childhood memories, it was that fricking good.
>Has any dish truly “blown your mind”? I’m still waiting to experience this.
Chole Bhature!
I think fine dining is less about "wow this flavor was so magical" and more about trying to cook say.. lamb, and struggling to make it taste good. then you go to like Arzac in San Sebastian and eat the perfect lamb. It blew my mind because i realized I was years from making it myself, and a decade of training to be able to make it perfect for 4 guests at the same time, as well as time it to the rest of the ingredients being ready+perfect temperature
That's a great point, anon. I remember a meal at Nightbell, an upscale Southern place in Asheville NC, where I was served a salad -- nothing too fancy, just lardons, croutons, seasonal greens, dressing. But every element was so perfectly itself, while balancing each other's texture... it made me realize how good a salad could be and changed the way I construct them at home.
That being said, my mind was obliterated at the Chicago Diner, the first like vegan comfort food I'd had. I stil don't know how they did their chicken-fried "steak." So there's something to be said for cleverness as well!
In a way its like trying to cycle on a bike, feel like you are ok with it, then see someone go on a unicycle on a tightrope blindfolded. Just that you can experience it yourself since you are eating the results
Unagi. I'll never forget the first time I had it. It kept a smile on my face the entire time.
I think I have to stop smoking. I’ve tried a lot of the things ITT and they were good but not great. Might be my ruined tastebuds
Properly cooked pork belly. Golden crispy exterior containing the softest meat and rendered fat. The texture was unreal.
It was the first time I dined in a Michelin starred restaurant.
It was served as the first course after the amuse bouche but wasn't on the menu. Tomato consomme with prawn and caviar. It blew my mind that an almost clear bowl of liquid could taste like that. As if the exact essence that made tomato had been captured. It was the purest, mind bending food moment I've had. Perhaps because I had no expectation that it would happen.
It was then followed by foie gras parfait. Not mind bending like the consomme but probably the nicest tasting plate I have ever eaten. Just extreme luxury.
Tomatos suck balls you soygay and you enjoyed concentrated tomato juice congratulations
yeah my rich friend took me to a starred restaurant where we had the tasting menu and that was a cool experience. i had never really thought of dishes as being composed of different flavors or textures like a painting being composed of different colors.
other than that everyone has their list of "perfect meals," most of mine occurred while traveling
-the sausage from a street vendor next to the river in Luang Prabang
-the seafood on the beach in Koh Rong with friends I just met while playing footsy with the dutch girl i was about to bang
-the first bun thit nuong after getting to my new home in Saigon
-fresh salad and halloumi cheese in the town square of the village my ancestors were from on a greek island
-ceviche on the cliffs overlooking the ocean in Lima
-Gobi Manchur and masala dosa at the street food market by my school and chicken biryani from the friendly hydrabadi muslim man in Bangalore, that one seafood meal in Goa
-grilled octopus and baby squid on the beach purchased from vendors with portable charcoal braziers with a cold beer and tapioca/fried banana dessert
-that one bowl of cao lao noodles from the vendor the first time i visited hoi an, right as the sun was rising in the old town with fog everywhere
-that one bowl of bun bo hue the first time i visited hue in the old market, when it was grey and raining
-the meal in the Laotian village
ahh. what pleasant memories. so many perfect moments. i have been very blessed to experience these things.
i have experienced like one of these and I'm from South East Asia
>my rich
homosexual, you just flexed a dozen fricking travel locations. You're rich.
Nah you're just extremely poor, gay. And that's not even a fraction of the full list of places I've been to.
Delusional.
Poor
Enjoy the collapse.
Oh so you're one of those doomsday copers too. Listen, poor. Nothing's gonna happen, you're just going to stay poor.
Larp. Name your hedge gay
Curious to see why this anon doesn't think he's rich and what his lifestyle is like.
>my rich friend took me to a starred restaurant
Mooch. All that travel and you can't afford a starred restaurant on your own.
Exquisite bait
When I was in Thailand I found this dish from a random street vendor called milk chicken, it was a skewer of chicken but not sure how it was made. Pretty awesome.
Also jellyfish salad
saikyo miso cod at shimogamo in chandler, az. there were some other things there that were way better than any ones id had at other places too.
There was a turbot dish at Victoria and Alberts that stunned me. And a sea bass dish with an absolutely stunning red wine demi glace at The Inn at Little Washington. The entire meal at Vetri Cucina made me look at Italian food in a new light with how delicate it could be. I had a fantastic gazpacho at the Peninsula Grill in Charleston that made me wonder what it was made with.
I'm sure there are a few others I could mention like a honey dish I had at Steirereck at Stadtpark. Some are just so good it's hard to imagine how they are accomplished. Same with the ones that are delicate and balanced. Then there are the interesting ones that use ingredients together you have never thought about or ferments that are unexpected.
* My first seafood boil.
* A fresh, ripe watermelon picked hot off the vine (mentioned in the watermelon thread).
* My first slurp of a passion fruit in Hawaii (now I grow them in my yard in Florida.)
>seafood boil
Shieeeeeeeeeett now das sum good shieeett
I hate seafood but crab boil is fricking crack
The prawns can frick off but I'll eat those potatoes for days
I still remember getting lamb chops with mango chutney at Epcot when I was a wee lad
Ciopinno
When I was in Augusta for work, I ate dinner at a place called Frog Hollow - a local source focused southern restaurant.
The waiter recommended the pork chop special which isn't usually something I'd try at a restaurant, but I gave it a shot.
It was the first time I ever had pork prepared like steak; rich, buttery and medium rare. It remains the single best piece of red meat I have ever tasted.
What’s the yellow stuff
I'd assumed some sort of compound butter.
eating moms food after being away for a long time from home
I can't relate to truly gourmet, Michelin shit because I'm in Michigan which only has the culinary equivalent of gas station pizza and coney islands.
With that said, most things from a food/taco/carnival truck make me say "oh my God" as I'm eating them. More so then any home cooked meal I've had. Something about aluminum foil. It's psychosomatic. Let's your brain inform your stomach so you know you're in for a good time.
I'm gonna make myself a couple burgers for work and was debating between getting wax paper or that shitty foil that food carts use. Yup, it's foil time.
There's something about aluminum foil. It's locks the heat in better than anything else as well so there's that benefit if taking something to go.
My own assado last weekend with a very good argie malbec.
Shit was so cash.
For me, it was when I ate my first Big Mac from McDonalds. The combination of the two all beef patties, the special sauce, cool lettuce, pungent onions, sour pickles, and the american cheese was heaven and I wish Ronald McDonald could take me back to that moment.
Closest thing to blowing my mind was some old burmese grandpa's Mo Hin Ga soup. I'm not even a fan of fish soups, but that was one of the best things I have ever had in my life. I think he added fried mangos and gave us a sides of his homemade chili sauce. Too bad he only did the soup on weekends and is like a 45 minute drive from me otherwise I would have had that soup more often.
>45 minute drive
lmao, are you English?
Sorry, a four ad break long drive.
That's closer to 11 ad breaks
Had a brisket quesadilla at a place in Anaheim and it was one of the most amazing things I've ever tasted.
the first time I had an oven baked margherita pizza in italy (when I was like 6) was the most powerful pizza moment I've ever had in my life. I remembered seeing all the black/burnt spots on other pizzas and thought it would taste like shit. Instead it was the greatest pizza I had ever tasted. I've had a shit ton of other pizzas but not one has come close so far.
That, and having thai chicken skewers for the first time in thailand, when I was even younger. There's a place in Lincoln that's either Thai or Cambodian that also makes really good ones, and a Mexican skewer stand that used to be in a now closed flea market in south NJ that was just as smoky and juicy.
I went to a Brazilian Steakhouse in Austin. I got several different cuts of beef, but what blew my mind was this chimichurri that tasted a tad sweet. It wasn't thick, the flavor was like a zap, extremely good combination of fresh flavors and smells without overcomplicating things. I still think about it often.
picrel is the sauce. sry for size, couldnt find a larger one.
Chimichuri is one of my favorite things. I prefer it just use parsley and oregano though, no cilantro. Funny thought, Chimichuri is like a South American tabouli turned into a sauce.
First time I had high quality pho it was on par with a really good blowjob. Same with this anchovy ramen I had in Shinjuku. Anything fatty and umami really gets my food prostate tingling.
Experience true hunger. Then whatever you eat will be amplified. Take a long break from seasoned food as well. Take 2 weeks eating bland food, then starve yourself for a day or two. Then you eat. Your expectations also play a huge part. Work yourself up, look forward to the meal, and find all the reasons you appreciate it.
All my best experiences with food were after a long hard workout.
McMuffins taste ultra dank after moving shit around for 8 hours. I love my job, it makes food taste good
>All my best experiences with food were after a long hard workout.
I get this mostly after swimming.
mc donalds nuggies blow my mind every time i eat them
several times
picking one... grilled fois gras for the first time and it was done very well
Most recently, sambhar. It tasted very different from usual Indian food in the west. It had flavors Id never even experienced before. Asafoetida and tamarind I think.
Interesting that seafood seems to feature a lot.
I once had a sausage tortellini thing with cream sauce that was ridiculously good. I was high at the time though so it might have been weed goggles.
Having truly fresh seafood can be a little mind blowing as to how much better it is. I am talking about eating the fish I literally just caught.
I don’t know if “mind blown” is a good description but pretty much any good I had down on bourbon street in New Orleans was fricking delicious.
snack sticks
Four times.
First was an Indian place, went in, ordered some flatbreads and other things with a friend to try. We were both floored, it was incredibly, robust in flavor, filling with out leaving me bloated.
Second was a breakfast hole in the wall near where I was working. Went in and saw fried pork belly on the menu. Got it and two over easy eggs. They were the most well seasoned, perfectly cooked and creamy yolk eggs and the bread was fresh baked. I'll preface this by saying I've always hated the term 'melt in your mouth' cause it was never literal. This was, it was like all the fat had rendered to liquid as I ate it, effectively meat candy. I've never gone back for fear of it not being as good the second time.
Third time was pizza, I went to a local pizza place to do some video work and interview the guy for a college radio thing. He offered to make me and the camera guy a couple of pizzas and I wasn't sure what to order so he just looked at us and asked if we trusted him. I laughed said yes and we had probably the two greatest pizzas I've ever had.
Lastly was this shitty little Korean noodle shop, first time having black garlic noodles. It was a white out blizzard outside, couldn't even see across the street. That bowl was like a divine escape. Thick rich broth, succulent noodles, the flavors brought back memories. Was a great time and worth the price too.
Pasture-raised beef tenderloin.
First time I had legit shoyu ramen
This duck fried rice at a michelin place in HI
I guess the first time tasting cookie dough as a kid
had some jackfruit at a bbq place because I'd never seen or had it before and the server said it was pretty good
I wasn't really amazed by the taste since it just tasted like pulled pork, but the fact it wasn't pork was pretty mind blowing. pretty impressive what vegans can pull out of their ass sometimes.
>pretty impressive what vegans can pull out of their ass sometimes.
Yeah. I've found vegans generally fall in 2 categories: utter shit food that only exists as a vegan alternative (and they enjoy it because they have shit taste) or god-tier meals I didn't know existed that transform vegetables into unique majesty.
yeah when ur mom was sitting on the dish
I had a really curious dish at a restaurant in Saumur, France. They took a fennel bulb and carefully grated it into little bits that were just like grains of rice in appearance, then cooked it in stock as you would cook risotto, with some porcini mushrooms added in.
It was just a side dish to an entrée of some deliciously rich river fish, but this rice-free version of risotto was just so fascinating. It's the most imaginatively transformed preparation of an ingredient I've ever seen.
That sounds amazing. I'm doing some shrimp this week with roasted fennel bulb. But I bet softened like risotto would be incredible.
I once ate a ripe peach suspended in aHispanic floating in a man’s hat.
1. A pizza slice with prosciutto and figs in Rome. They sold the slices by measuring their length. It made me appreciate figs a lot.
2. Coconut shrimp in Florida. I tried it at home but it was terrible.
3. On the Greek island Milos is an amazing restaurant called Ó Xamos. Some tourists visit the island specifically for this restaurant and I can see why. We shared four different dishes (lamb, pork, beef and aubergine) between the four of us and they all tasted amazing.
my homemade beef stew.. never tasted something as good as it
For me, it's the McChicken.
I ate a chicken dish at a tiny Thai place on the second floor of an apartment building in Boston that nearly made me cum. I have no idea what it was or where it is but I think they called it something generic and unhelpful like "empress chicken".
Also the first time I had a caprese salad I was blown away
The first time I had sisig at a Filipino place. That shit is so fricking good I don't care how much it clogs my arteries or how much Culinaly shits on Flip food.